Update: Additional information about retailer and historical context
By Todd Northrop
A single ticket sold in Texas matched the winning numbers from Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing and is worth an estimated $227 million.
The Texas Lottery announced that the ticket was sold at the Lakeline Express Mart on 2004 N. Lakeline Boulevard in Cedar Park. The retailer is eligible to receive a $1 million retailer bonus for selling the jackpot-winning ticket, which was a quick pick.
The cash value option was selected at the time of purchase and the claimant will receive $157,091,592, the largest prize ever paid out to a single Texas Lottery player. The winner has 180 days from the draw date to claim the prize.
"We look forward to meeting Texas' newest millionaire and we are excited to have another Mega Millions jackpot winner here in Texas," said Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery. "If you have the winning ticket, we encourage you to sign the ticket, put it in a safe place, seek financial and legal advice, and call the Texas Lottery before coming to Austin to claim the prize."
Another ticket sold in Florida matched five numbers for a second-prize win, and because they purchased the Megaplier option, their prize is worth $4 million.
Tuesday's winning numbers were 6, 14, 24, 42, and 46, with Mega Ball number 9. The Megaplier was 4.
In total, 894,680 tickets won $8,749,875 in prizes across the game's eight additional prize tiers in Tuesday's drawing.
The full breakdown of results and prizes, including the official drawing video, can be found on USA Mega's Mega Millions Drawing Detail for Sept. 24, 2019.
The ticket sold in Texas is the 13th Mega Millions jackpot winner in Texas, and the sixth Mega Millions jackpot winner from any state in 2019. The biggest jackpot of the year, worth $522 million, was won in California and was claimed just last week.
Texas joined the multijurisdictional game in 2003 and had its first Mega Millions jackpot winner in 2004 when Ut Van Nguyen of Carrollton claimed the $101 million advertised jackpot from the Oct. 1, 2004 drawing.
While Tuesday's $227 million jackpot is the third-largest multi-state jackpot hit in Texas, it will be the largest prize ever to be paid out to a Texas Lottery player. On Feb. 15, 2015, TL Management Trust of Austin and two out-of-state winners won a share of the $500 million advertised Powerball jackpot prize and for the Mega Millions drawing on Aug. 31, 2007, SB Alchemy Holdings, Ltd., of Dallas, Texas shared the $330 million advertised jackpot prize with three out-of-state winners.
With the jackpot being won Tuesday, the next Mega Millions annuity jackpot estimate is reset to its starting point of $40 million.
Mega Millions is currently offered for sale in 44 states, plus Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are Tuesdays and Fridays at 11:00 pm Eastern Time. Tickets cost $2 each.
The Mega Millions winning numbers are published at USA Mega (www.usamega.com) minutes after the drawing takes place.
Congratulations to the big Texas winner and Florida
Guess it's easier to win in Texas & Florida
I'm happy Texas won, they don't get many hitters.
Maybe the owner/s are Lottery Post Members. To all TX LP Members, "Keep on trying!"
Another jackpot is just around the corner. Thank You for playing.
Finally a winner in Texas. It's been a while. Ticket was sold in Cedar Park, a little north of Austin, a QP. It was a cash value ticket worth app $156.5 million.
Wish it had been me.
You watch: with MM & PB jackpots being hit every 3 to 4 weeks lately, the greedy lottery associations will be raising the odds of both games again. Pretty soon it will be: Pick 5 out 80 and 1 out of 35. It will happen. That's when we should all boycott both, if not now already. In 2006, PB jackpot odds were 1 in 175 million. Today it is 1 in 292 million.
Today, they don't design these games so that someone can hit the jackpot at $80 or $227 million anymore. They want to see $900+ million jackpots. "Not getting enough of those? Let's alter the matrix yet again, raise the ticket price to $3, and raise the odds of hitting the jackpot from nearly impossible to absolutely impossible: Let's make it 1 in 400,000,000."
Congratulations on your QP win...
Congrats to the winner and the retailer for getting the 1 million dollar bonus.
Way To Go Cedar Park Texas!
Or is it population and thus ticket sales?
Top three states in population;
California
Texas
Florida
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population
l actually thought it was you rcb. Just as when a winner is called from Oregon, l think it's Weshar75.
Anyways, next time buckeye.
good luck rcb
Well the odds may need to change to make it harder because it's way too easy for winners to win. It's about saving the games, if PB and MM are paying out more than they're taking in, then the games could potentially go bankrupt. I believe states with a population of over 10,000,000 or so need their own MUSL game that's literally hard as hell to win.
Gonna let you in on a little secret prince of thieves. Before l joined LP, l was looking for a easy name to go off, l almost chose " Way-to-easy" but backed off.
l would be honored if you would bench your present name & take this one, after all, it suits your philosophy.
Say yes!
The real odds are printed on the back of the play slips... MM (1 in 24),... PB ( 1 in 24.56).. or something like that...
Yea, Congrats to the LuCkY winner, because Lottery Officials were surely dodging MY number picks.. and as usual, somebody wins elsewhere..!
Same thing happens when I play Pwrball.. Like in Football, they'd rather throw away the Ball, than get $acked, by ME...!!
But, I'm coming... and Horseshoes, Rabbit feet & Probability SKILLZ are with me..!!!
QP strikes again!
The Powerball site has a "tongue-in-cheek" QP statistic from a few years ago, but my guess is PB and MM QP sales are well over 90% of ticket sales.
Can't do that because it's not true, it's NOT way too easy for me to win. I did make a signature just for you. Do you approve? LOL
What's the real reason , why so many people from California , New York , Florida , etcc
Wins more than all the other states ????
Congratulations to the winner/s
No. Explain why it is NOT way to easy for you to win, but is for others. I have this gut feeling that Todd will make an exception, especially for you to change your name.